krayzie Bone wrote:In modern wrestling era the longest match was Chris Hero vs CM Punk in IWA Mid South, it was 90 minutes long. I was at that show live, it was one of the best wrestling matches I have ever seen.

I'm pretty sure a couple of CHIKARA's ciberneticos are longer than that.

Oh, what a good topic. I only know about current wrestling the longest matches so here are the longest matches I can think of off the top of my head.

As mentioned above, Hero vs. Punk met and had a 90 minute two out of three falls match that actually required extra time to complete. I believe it ends at 95 minute mark. Punk and Hero (and Colt Cabana) have done many one hour broadways, but this is the longest as far I know. http://www.smartmarkvideo.com/IWA-Mid-S ... sville-IN/

For Ring of Honor, the longest match would have to be the Testing the Limit show from August 7th, 2004, in which Austin Aries faced Bryan Danielson in another two out of three falls that went 75 minutes. This seems endemic of a trend towards longer matches in the early 2000s, thanks to the success of the Punk-Joe Trilogy that have been shied away from recently, but then again looking at recent "one hour draws" Tyler Black and Austin Aries at Final Battle 2009 and Tyler Black and Nigel McGuiness early 2009, I can't blame them for not having as many.http://www.rohwrestling.com/pastresults.php

And also mentioned above, the longest match in recent years was the Chikara Cibernetico. The 2nd Cibernetico in fact, The Cibernetico Returnth from 2005, and it lasts 103 minutes, almost twice the length of more recent Ciberneticos, which have been coming in shorter and shorter every year ever since. (Maybe, not sure, but its been feeling like that.)http://www.smartmarkvideo.com/Chikara-D ... ertown-PA/

So, I think the more challenging question is what is the longest match with only one or less falls? All that I can think of is of one hour matches, but none that have gone over that.

I have the '101 strangest wrestling matches' book, and that has a few good ones in it.

The 3 longest ones are:

1) Lance Steel vs Darkness Crabtree (CHIKARA) Very dubious record this one - Series of matches all in one night, each match directly follow each other. Each time Darkness Crabtree issued a rematch to Steel, which he accepted each time of course.

First fall (Normal match) Steel pinned Crabtree in 13 seconds by pinfallSecond fall (Normal match) Steel pinned Crabtree in 10 seconds by pinfallThird fall (Submission match) Steel used a side headlock to make Crabtree submit in 8 secondsForth fall (Hardcore match) Crabtree went to grab a table, but Steel caught him in a backslide before he could even exit the ring, and won by pinfall in 8 secondsFifth fall (Falls count anywhere) Steel pinned Crabtree in 27 secondsFinal fall (Falls count anywhere, No Count-Outs) The two fought outside the ring and out of the fire exit, disapearing behind a nearby building along with the referee, and were not seen for the rest of the night. The next night however Chikara ran a show in Nebraska 35 miles away, just after the events first match ended, both Steel and Crabtree crashed through the door, and after a short tustle of chops and throws into the steel steps, Steel made Crabtree submit with a Boston Crab in a total time of 23 hours and 36 minutes.

Even better, the full Jungle Island Deathmatch is on youtube in about 12 parts..... when I have a spare few hours, I may well watch it. As bad as it probably is (the book at least says they stall, a LOT) it's historic!

I could post a link to it, although you could easily find it yourself I guess, plus I'm not sure what the rules are like here on linking to sites like Amazon.If you put that in google though, it's the first link that comes up anyway.